City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics

Pinto, John A.

ISBN 10: 0875981712 / ISBN 13: 9780875981710

Published by Morgan Library & Museum: Foundation for Landscape Studies; University Press of New England, New York and Hanover, NH, 2016

About this Item

Cloth, 207 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps, facsimiles, colour portraits; 29 cm. Exhibition held at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 17 June to 11 September 2016. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. An attractive copy. *** "Rome, described by Byron as the City of the Soul, has always inspired fervid imaginings and visionary renderings of itself and its past. It has existed not only as an intensely physical place but also as a romantic idea onto which artists and writers projected their own imaginations and longings. City of the Soul illuminates how the spirit of Romanticism (the term itself invokes Rome--its passion, imagination, individuality, transcendence, nonconformity--thrived in the artistic community of Rome in the century between 1770 and 1870. The expansive artistic response to Rome during that period reflected the timeless yet changing city, when visitors experienced the transition from the Grand Tour to the onset of mass tourism and history witnessed Rome's dramatic transformation from papal enclave to the capital of a newly unified Italy. Rome in the Romantic era attracted extraordinary writers and visual artists, and, as it had for centuries, facilitated vibrant artistic exchange among them. The records of these encounters--in the form of letters and diary entries, poems, novels, prints, drawings, watercolors, oil sketches, and the exciting new medium of photography--collectively constitute the portrait of a very particular place, a city that touched the very soul." - Publisher. Size: 4to.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics
• Publisher: Morgan Library & Museum: Foundation for Landscape Studies; University Press of New England, New York and Hanover, NH
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875981712
• ISBN 13: 9780875981710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Collectible
• Seller catalogs:
  • Movements::Romanticism
  • Architecture::Urbanism, Cities & City Planning
  • European::6. Neo-Classical & Romantic
  • USA::3. Neo-Classical & Romantic
  • European::Italian
  • XXXL: Jumbo
  • European::2d. Classical::Roman
  • New Books
  • XXX::COLLECTIBLES

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Synopsis

City of the Soul critically examines how an international cast of visitors fashioned Rome’s image, visual and literary, in the century between 1770 and 1870―from the era of the Grand Tour to the onset of mass tourism. The Eternal City emerges not only as an intensely physical place but also as a romantic idea onto which artists and writers projected their own imaginations and longings. The book will appeal to a wide audience of readers interested in the history of art, architecture, and photography, the Romantic poets, and other writers from Byron to Henry James. It will also attract the interest of historians of urbanism, landscape, and Italy. Nonspecialists and armchair travelers will enjoy the diverse literary and artistic responses to Rome.

About the Author

JOHN A. PINTO taught for twenty-five years at Princeton University in the Department of Art and Archaeology. His research interests focus on the architecture of eighteenth-century Rome and on the relationship between the architecture of classical antiquity and that of the Renaissance. He currently resides in New York City.